Zosterops lateralis investigator Mathews

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 29

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0003-0090

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475689

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Zosterops lateralis investigator Mathews
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Zosterops lateralis investigator Mathews

Zosterops lateralis investigator Mathews, 1923a: 153 ( New Zealand).

Now Zosterops lateralis lateralis (Latham, 1801) View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 30–70, van Balen, 2008: 467– 468, and Checklist Committee, 2010: 309–310.

SYNTYPES: collected at Katikati, 10 m, 37.32S, 175.58E (Times Atlas), Tauranga Harbour, AMNH 701115 View Materials , female, 2 August 1914, by Robin Kemp (no. 4690) GoogleMaps ; collected at Lucas Creek , Waitemata, AMNH 701119 View Materials , male, 2 March 1915, AMNH 701120 View Materials , male, 3 February 1915, AMNH 701121 View Materials , female, 27 January 1915, AMNH 701122 View Materials , sex?, 25 February 1915, by Robin Kemp (nos. 4796, 4776, 4771, 4794, respectively) ; collected at Oneroa, Waitemata Co., AMNH 701123 View Materials , juvenile sex?, 23 February 1915, by Robin Kemp (no. 4790). All were collected on the North Island , New Zealand. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: Mathews (1923a: 153) did not designate a type but introduced this name with the following comments: ‘‘The New Zealand form is credited with arriving from Australia and spreading all over New Zealand. When Iredale and I ( Mathews and Iredale, 1913) drew up the Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand we noted that all the New Zealand birds were like Tasmanian ones and used the name of the Tasmanian subspecies. The green of the head is becoming more restricted, the grey on the back less, the flanks darker, the breast paler, the black lores more pronounced, the throat scarcely tinged with yellow, the bill longer. Whether these changes have taken place in the last sixty years or not I cannot say, but it is necessary to provide a name to attract attention to the fact that, according to the birds examined a distinct form appears to be evolving. As above noted, only one stage of plumage has been seen, as yet, from New Zealand, viz., the so-called winter plumage.’’ This implies that the changes Mathews envisioned had occurred between 1913 and the 1923 description of investigator. The six specimens from the Mathews Collection listed above were all collected after 1913, on Kemp’s second visit to New Zealand, and I consider them syntypes; by 1914 Mathews had essentially stopped adding specimens to his catalog and none of these syntypes was found there.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Zosteropidae

Genus

Zosterops

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Zosterops lateralis investigator Mathews

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Zosterops lateralis lateralis (Latham, 1801)

Checklist Committee 2010: 309
van Balen, S. 2008: 467
Mees, G. F. 1969: 30
1969
Loc

Zosterops lateralis investigator

Mathews, G. M. 1923: 153
1923
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